2. Homeland Security News Wire - "Engineering student develops early detection methods for E. coli bacteria"Loreen Lamoureaux, a UNM biomedical engineering graduate student, is working on ways to quickly detect Escherichia coli or E. coli bacteria in meat before it reaches the consumer. She is one of dozens of collaborators working on a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to find ways to detect the bacteria as early as possible in the food chain.

IT'S AN ALARMING CRIMINAL TREND THAT HAS ALBUQUERQUE POLICE AND PROSECUTORS TAKING ACTION. RAPE IS ON THE RISE NATIONWIDE. AND HERE IN NEW MEXICO THE NUMBERS ARE EVEN WORSE. STUART DYSON IS IN OUR NEWSROOM WITH MORE ON HOW LOCAL LEADERS ARE CRACKING DOWN. THE TIMING COULDN'T BE BETTER - THE WHITE HOUSE ISSUES A NATIONWIDE RAPE REPORT - SAYING ONE OUT OF EVERY FIVE WOMEN HAS BEEN RAPED SOMETIME IN HER LIFE - LOCAL AUTHORITIES SAY HERE IT'S EVEN WORSE. BERNALILLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY KARI BRANDENBURG PUT IT TOGETHER - COPS AND PROSECUTORS MEETING WITH THE WOMEN WHO RUN THE RAPE CRISIS CENTER AND NURSES WHO WORK WITH RAPE VICTIMS TOO - HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. THE NATIONAL AVERAGE IS ONE IN FIVE - BUT IN NEW MEXICO IT'S ONE IN FOUR WOMEN WHO'VE BEEN RAPED AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR LIVES - AND AT LEAST 94 PERCENT OF THE TIME THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH. NURSES WHO WORK WITH RAPE VICTIMS AREN'T SURPRISED." IT IS NOT AT ALL UNCOMMON FOR FRIENDS OF SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED TO NOT BELIEVE THEM - AND THAT'S THE CULTURE THAT WE LIVE IN - AND SO ONE OF THE MESSAGES THAT WE ARE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO GET OUT THERE IS TO BELIEVE WHEN SOMEBODY DISCLOSES A SEXUAL ASSAULT." HOW ABOUT THIS - 87 PERCENT OF RAPE VICTIMS HERE KNOW THEIR ATTACKER - AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF ATTACKERS HAVE MULTIPLE VICTIMS. BIANCA VILLANI SEES IT AT THE RAPE CRISIS CENTER ALL THE TIME. " IT IS NOT THE SCARY PERSON IN A TRENCH COAT HANGING OUT BEHIND A BUSH OR IN AN ALLEYWAY - THE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS KNOW THE ASSAILANT." MORE NUMBERS - IN 20-11 POLICE REPORTED 1,338 RAPES STATEWIDE - MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF THEM IN BERNALILLO COUNTY - AND POLICE SAY MANY MORE RAPES GO UNREPORTED. THE WHITE HOUSE REPORT ZEROES IN ON A TIDAL WAVE OF RAPES ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES - UNM HAS FORMED ITS OWN SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE TEAM AND WE'LL BE HEARING MORE FROM THEM IN THE DAYS AHEAD.